The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation are, — 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and 3. Hope to all.

The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.

A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife.

And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.

The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

For more than a thousand years the Bible, collectively taken, has gone hand in hand with civilization science, law; in short, with the moral and intellectual cultivation of the species, always supporting and often leading he way.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.